Re: [AD] al_get_path

[Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Sat April 4 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>  >
>  > Really depends on the game/app. Many times you'll have the filenames 
> stored
>  > in a config file or some other place, and that api can provide a
>  > blah_get_path() function for you. like
>  > al_load_bitmap(al_config_get_path(item, default));
>
>
> Also, except in the very smallest minority of cases, you'll be building 
> the full path to an image or resource using a pre configured base path, 
> and a relative path, so many/most people will be wanting to use 
> ALLEGRO_PATH for just about all path names everywhere.

Yes, I agree, I wouldn't really mind changing the API in such a way I 
think, but would have to think more about it. Tt would be a much bigger 
and more far-reaching change though and deserve its own thread. For 
al_get_path on the other hand it seems really logical to me to return an 
ALLEGRO_PATH, independent of the rest of the API. It even has "path" in 
its name already :)

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>